Combined door hinge and brace



June 9, 1925.

A. RUBIN comsnmn noon amen AND BRACE Filed July 1'7. 1924 Fatah-ted June 9, 192.5.

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ADOLZE'H RUBIN, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSTGNOR TO SILBE'R- PRODUCTS MANU- FACTU'RING COM'BAZN'Y, OF ST. LOUIS), M

ISSOU'RI, A. CORPORATION OF MISSOURI.

COMBINED Does HINGE N BRACE- ppl ti n fi d, Ji ly 7,

3'0 (LU whom it may concern:

iviun of the United States, residing at St.

nouis, Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Combined Door Hinges and Braces, of which the following is a full, clear, and eXact description, such as wi'll enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. 7

his invention relates to door hinges of the kind that are provided with a brace for resisting the movement of the door in one direction when the door is open, and has for its main object to provide a combined door hinge and brace that can be manufactured at a very low cost.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a front elevationa'l view'of a combined ,door hinge and brace constructed in accordance with my invention.

Figure 2 is a side elevational view .of

same. 4

Figure 3 is a side elevational view of the device illustrated in liigures 1 and 2, showing the door open; and

F'gu're i is a front ,elevational view, illnse Hating a modi cation mv vent n- In Figures l, 2 and 3 which illustrate the prefer rm o inv n, A d ghates t e st t o ary m mber of th ing 1 designates the movable member of the hinge, C designates one element of an extensible brace or strut, which is pivotally connected at its outer end by a pin 1 to the outer end of the movable member 13 of the hinge, and C designates the other element of said extensible brace or strut, which is pivotally connected at its outer end by a pin 2 tothe stationary member A of the hinge. The members A and B of the hinge and the two lements C and C of the brace are prefer, ably formed from sheet metal stampings having integral, bent portions that constitute eye for receiving the pins 1 and 2,.each of the elements of the brace being provided with a single eye 3 that is arranged between a pair of eyes 4 on the hinge member with which it cooperates. The pintle 5 of the hinge is arranged insimilar eyes 6 formed by integral, bent portions on the hinge members A and B.

The two elements C andC .of the members are arranged in overlapping relation and one of said elements, preferably theleles en No- 72 1525 ment C, is provided with an integral guideway for the element 0 formed preferably by ears 7 .on the element C that are bent around the element C so as to form a substantially channel-shaped guideway on the free end of the element 0 in which the element U is reciprocatingly mounted, thereby permitting the brace to shorten whenthe door is swung downwardly, as shown in Figure 8, and lengthen when the door is moved upwardly back to its closed position. In order that the door will be braced firmly enough when it is in its open position to permit the door to be used as a shelf or support.- ing structure, the element C of the brace is provided with integral lugs or thrust abutments 8 that project laterally from the side edges of same, as shown in Figure and which are adapted to bear against the end of the guidewayon the element (J formed by the bent portions 7 of same, when the door is in its open position. If desired, the ha 8 an be o it ed and t e e ement of the brace provided with a shoulder 9, as

shown in Figure 3, against which the inner n end of the element C bears when the door is in its open position, said shoulder 9serving as a stop or abutment that limits the movement of the element'C relatively to the leme t a hu Causes the wo e eme d C to cooperat wit a other t for a strut tha transm ts l ad o the door directly to the stationary member O of the hinge, I

I am aware of the fact that combined door hinges and braces of this general type have long been in use, but the novelty of my com-' bin'ed hinge and brace resides in the fact that the parts composing same cons st of inexp'ensfive sheet metal stampings that are S easy to formand easy to assemble.

Instead of forming the brace or strut of the hinge from-two flat strips of metal, one of which is provided with an integral, chane nel-shaped guideway in which the other element s'lide-s,' as shown in Figures 1, 2 and 3, the brace or strut of the hinge could be formed from two pieces-of relatively heavy wire or two light-weight rods bent or deformed in such a way as to produce an extensible strut that can be easily connected to the stationary member and movable member of the hinge. Therefore, in Figure 4 of the drawings, I have illustrated my invention embodied in a hinge composed of a stationary member A and a movable member 13 of any preferred construction or design combined with an extensible brace formed by two elements I) and D constructed oi"- heavy wire or light-weight rods arranged in telescopic engagement with each other and pivotally connected at their outer ends to the two members of the hinge. The elements D and D are of such length that they lap over each other when the door is closed, and each of said elements is provided at its inner end with an integral, bent portion that constitutes an eye 7 in which the other element slides. Said elements D and D can be pivotally connected in any suitable way to the members A and B of the hinge, but I prefer to provide each of said elements at its outer end with a laterally bent portion 10, which, after being inserted through a lug 11 on the hinge member with which it co-operates, is upset at 12, so as to prevent it from pulling out or said lug. A combined hinge and brace of the kind shown in Figure 4- has the same desirable characteristic as the device shown in Figures 1 to 3, namely, it is inexpensive to manufacture, and it forms a very eiiicient support for a door that is to be used as a shelf or to carry a load, for when the door is in its open position, the eyes 7 on the ends of the elements D and D bear against the lugs 11 on the hinge members, and thus cause the load on the door to be transmitted directly to the stationary member A of the hinge.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A combined door hinge and brace, com posed of a stationary hinge member, a movable hinge member, and an extensible brace combined with said members and composed of two elements pivotally connected at their outer ends to said hinge members and maintained in telescopic relationship with each other by a bent portion on one of said elements hat receives the other element.

2. A combined door hinge and brace, comprising a stationary hinge member, a movable hinge member, and an extensible brace pivotally connected at its opposite ends to said hinge members and composed of two elements, one of said elements having a bent portion that constitutes a guideway in which the other element slides.

A combined door hinge and brace, composed of a stationary hinge member, a movable hinge member, and an extensible brace pivotally connected at its opposite ends to said hinge members and composed of two sheet metal stampings, one of which is pro vided with an integral, bent portion that constitutes a guideway in which the other slides.

A combined door hinge and brace, composed of a stationary hinge member, a

movable hinge member, an extensible brace pivotally connected at its opposite ends to said hinge members and composed of two sheet metal stampings, one of which is provided with an integral, bent portion that constitutes a guideway in which the other slides, and co -operating portions on said stampings for limiting the movement of one relatively to the other when the door is in its open position, 7

5. A combined door hinge and brace, comprising a stationary hinge member, a movable hinge member, and an extensible brace pivotally connected at its opposite ends to said hinge members and composed of two elements formed from sheet metal stampings, one of said elements being provided with an integral, bent portion that constitutes a guideway in which the other element slides and also having a stop for the inner end of same.

6. A combined door hinge and brace, comprising a stationary hinge member, a movable hinge member, and extensible brace pivotally connected ,at its opposite ends to said hinge members and composed of two elements formed from sheet metal stampings and one provided with an integral, bent portion that constitutes a guideway in which the other element slides, and an abutment on one of said elementsagainst which the end of the other element bears when the door is in its open position.

7 A combined door hinge and brace, composed of a stationary hinge member, a movable hinge member, and an extensible brace pivotally connected at its opposite ends to said hinge members and composed of two flat sheet metal stampings arranged in overlapping relation and one provided at its end with an integral, channel-shaped guideway in which the other element is slidingly mounted.

8. A combined door hinge and brace, composed of a stationary hinge member, a movable hinge member, an extensible brace pivotally connected at its opposite ends to said hinge members and composed of two flat sheet metal stampings arranged in overlapping relation and one provided at its end with an integral, channel-shaped guideway in which the other element is ly mounted, and laterally-projecting lugs on the side edges of said other element that bear against the end of said guideway when the door is in its open position.

9. A combined door hinge and brace composed of a stationary hinge member, a movable hinge member, and an extensible brace pivotally connected at its opposite ends to said hinge members and composed of two overlapping members arranged in sliding relationship with each other, said various members being formed from sheet metal stampings provided witn integral low slidingeyes through which connecting pins pass and one member of the brace being provided with a bent portion that constitutes a guide-way for the other member of the brace.

10. A combined door hinge and brace, comprising a stationary hinge member and a movable hinge member, each of which consists of a sheet metal stamping provided at its outer end with integral eyes formed by bent portions of said members, an eX- tensib-le brace composed of two flat elements arranged in overlapping relation and each provided at its outer end With a bent portion that constitutes an eye, pins that co-operate with the eyes on the ends of said brace and the eyes on the hinge members that pivotally connect said parts together, an integral, channel-shaped portion on one element of the brace in which the other tale ment of the brace is slidingly mounted, and

a stop or abutment on one element of the brace against which the other element of the brace bears when the door is in its open position.

11. A combined door hinge and brace, composed of a stationary hinge member, a movable hinge member, an extensible brace composed of two pieces of heavy wire or light-weight rod arranged in overlapping relation and each provided at its inner end with an eye through which the other piece slides, laterally-bent portions at the outer ends of the pieces, constituting said brace, and lugs on the hinge members that co-operate With said laterally-bent portions to pivotally connect said brace and hinge members together.

ADOLPH RUBIN.

Certificate of Correction.

It is hereby certified that the name of the assignee in Letters'Pa-tent No. 1,511,397, granted June 9, 1925, upon the application of Adolph Rubin, of St. Louis, Missouri, for an improvement in Combined Door Hing-es and Braces, was erroneously written and printed as Silber Products Manufacturing Company, Whereas said name should have been Written and printed as Sieber Products Mmmfacturing Company, as shown by the records of assignments in this office; and that the said Letters Patent should be read With this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Ofiiee.

Signed and sealed this 7th day of July, A. D. 1925.

[smn] WM. A. KINNAN,

Acting Commissioner of Patents. 

